Gifts of War
I’ll admit that the plot begins a little soapy. However the historical details transport the reader into the time period which is engaging enough until the story takes off. A combination spy novel, war story, and romance
The Kissing Gates
When English soldier Hal strikes up a conversation with German Lieutenant Wilhelm during the ceasefire in no-man's-land on Christmas Day , he has no idea the impact this chance meeting will have. Wilhelm is in love with an English woman, Sam, and presses a photograph into Hal's hand - if he makes it home, Hal must promise to find Sam and give her this token of affection.
Hal does make it home, though the war rages on - but the moment he sees Sam he is in trouble. With Wilhelm's shadow looming over their relationship, and his photograph never revealed, Hal begins to live a life that was meant for someone
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Selected articles and chapters by John M. MacKenzie:
Made with Xara
&#;&#;The Scottish Deathscape in South Asia: Madras and Ceylon&#;, Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies (online), Vol.5 No.2 (January ), pp &#;Preface/Introduction to I&#;il Tombul (ed.), Handbook of Research on Contemporary Approaches to Orientalism in the Media and Beyond (Hershey, Penn., IGI Global Publishing, ). &#;&#;Documents in Stone: Records of Lives and Deaths of Scots Abroad and in Scotland&#; in Nicholas Evans and Angela McCarthy, Death in the Diaspora (Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, ), pp. &#;Editorial Introduction: &#;Stability and Instability in Macro and Micro Contexts&#; in Britain and the World, 13, 2 (September ), pp. &#;&#;The Distinctive Scottish Diaspora&#; in Marie Ruiz, Bridging Boundaries in British Migration History: In Memoriam Eric Richards. Publication arising from a conference in Amiens in Publisher: Anthem Press, &#;Editorial Introduction: &#;The complex circuit boards of empire&#; in Britain and the World, 13, 1 (March ), pp &#;&#;Sub-Saharan Africa&#; (co-authored with Georgina M. Montgomery) in The Cambridge History of Science, vol.8,
MACKENZIE,JOHNJOSEPH, scientist, civil servant, professor, and army officer; b. 24 March in St Thomas, Upper Canada, son of Donald Kennedy Mackenzie, a merchant, and Mary McAdam; m. 2 June Agnes Kathleen Rogers in Toronto; they had no children; d. 1 Aug. in Gravenhurst, Ont.
Of Scottish parentage, John J. Mackenzie was educated at St Thomas Collegiate Institute. Through “great sacrifice” by his father, in he entered University College in Toronto, where he soon came “under the spell” of science in the biology lectures of Robert Ramsay Wright*. Among the first to graduate from Wright’s honours program in natural sciences at the University of Toronto, in , Mackenzie contemplated a career in that field at a time when the “scientific point of view had not begun to prevail.”
On the advice of Professor Archibald Byron Macallum*, he went to Germany for graduate work. He studied physiology at the University of Leipzig and bacteriology at the University of Berlin. Because there was little funding for biological research in Ontario, Mackenzie, at the urging of his instructors in Toronto, had also studied anatomy at Leipzig in preparatio
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